Modern man Quote by Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Man is originally characterized by his "search for meaning" rather than his "search for himself." The more he forgets himself—giving himself to a cause…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“Once a man has found himself there is nothing in this world that he can lose. And once he has understood the humanity in…

— Stefan Zweig

“The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.”

— Rod Judkins

“The meaning is hidden in man, but it is only man himself who can find it.”

— Liv-Christine Hoem

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his…

— Thomas Merton

“In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his…

— Tai Sheridan

“Modern man became psychological because he became isolated from protective collective ideologies. He had to justify himself from within himself.”

— Ernest Becker

“A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which…

— James Allen

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.

— Jacques Barzun

Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed…

— Otto Weininger

“Man has always sought to be a part of something larger than himself, and so has tried to change himself in order to fit…

— James Rozoff